Under Review!!

     I checked my email this morning before going to work. Peace Corps has received my (our) packet(s) and it is "under review". It says they received it yesterday (over a week later???). It goes on to explain that if our scheduled departure is within the next 4 mos, we will be notified very soon, but that if our departure is farther away than that, we will not be notified until closer to that time. I do remember my recruiter telling me that they have departures in February and in September, so I am pretty sure we will not go until September due to having not turned in our packets until now.
     I am excited to see some progress and to know that someone is rummaging through all of my personal medical records, hopefully even as I type this :)

Signed, Sealed and probably delivered by now!

We mailed off our packets on 12/19/2011. It has been a week now. I checked out online toolkit with Peace Corps but no update yet on whether or not it has been received. We read our official documents that state it is 1-6 mos after you turn in your packets before you get an official invivation. We have successfully moved into a new apartment and are gearing up for our new year of working toward leaving. We are.....excited, scared and motivated all at once! If you have not checked out all the places we can go in Central Asia, go here:

http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn.wherepc&cid=map

You can also check out videos that others have posted about their experiences and see where they live here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=peace+corps&oq=peace+corps&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=8046l11968l0l12265l13l12l1l0l0l0l250l1846l0.8.3l11l0

We will keep you updated on this long but rewarding process!